This week I have two of my former colleagues on my blog! Tash and Stu are two lovely individuals who fell in love in the office, then decided to change their entire lives together. They moved to the Midlands, where their families live, started up […]

Happy new year! Have you set any goals yet? Normally, at this time of year, I’m full on into workbooks and notebooks and big plans for the year ahead. This year, I’ve been trying to piece mine together more slowly. Partly because I’m actually taking […]

I’ve only had a ‘multi-hyphen career’ for a a few months now, but I’ve absolutely loved the mix of things I’ve been working on. From working with authors directly to getting involved with a small publisher, it’s been so interesting to approach what I love […]

I love Christmas. I love the day, I love the run up, I love the whole atmosphere and the Christmas spirit that starts to appear at this time of year. I love our advent candle, which we’ve been lighting each morning (as we scarf down […]

One of the things I talk about in my author mentoring programme is creating a sustainable content plan that works for you. So much of the advice out there about creating a blog is about posting regularly, but ‘regularly’ means different things to different people. […]

A few weeks ago, I asked people to tell me more about their lives as freelancers. It’s not something I’m planning to do just yet, but since I technically now have a ‘multi-hyphened career’, figuring out how other people do this thing full time is […]

In September, I announced my first ever author mentoring programme. I created it to help authors clarify their online presence and create a sustainable social media plan during the times they didn’t actively have a book to promote. It felt like a huge gamble, launching an […]

I’m not at all a full-time freelancer. I’m not really even a part-time freelancer. I work four days a week for a London publishing house, and am just starting to do my own thing on my fifth day. But I guess I’m one of those […]

Tsh Oxenreider, who runs the Simple podcast, regularly runs these features on what’s saving her life – the small things that are bringing joy into her life every day. I’ve done one of these in the newsletter before, but I think it was high time […]

I’ve been enjoying the recent explosion in podcasts so much recently. Over the past year and a bit, I’ve come across some incredible podcasts for people looking to explore their creative side – whether it’s already your business or a hobby you want to do […]